X-News Week #3
North America Monday Night Fights @ Arkadeum had its #52 weekly event with Techmonkey and RenoMD coming back after a few weeks break. Bracket | Video Free Play arcade in Texas…
X-News #2
News from last week: North America Results and a documentary of a new tournament in Chicago, IL called "No Drinks on the Astro City" have been posted. Bracket | Documentary There are…
X-News, first attempt
In an attempt to summarize the ST events of the week... here they are: North America Canada Cup: The biggest ST tournament of the year in American lands. Too many…
Zagi wins the first Fightcade Offline Festival
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XSB to become the biggest ST tournament in Europe
With the absence of X-Mania Europe since 2014 and Stunfest in 2017 the guys from LaDose in Lyon have committed to organize the ST tournament that Europe deserves. Everything is…
Kakerugo 2016 Trip Report
I am going to dump every bit of the Kakerugo 2016 report here. I warn you it’s very long. You have material for several days, specially if you want to go through the videos so digest it the best you can and hope you enjoy it.
First of all, last year I posted a report of the X-Mania 2015 trip along with 46 videos of games from the Japanese arcades. I know I promised there were going to be more parts coming written by the rest of the people that came to the trip with me. All I can say is that @eltroubleSRK promised me he will do it sooner or later. ST is a timeless game so it’s better late than never 🙂
I will also apologize in advance for all the vertical videos in this post. I find it the most confortable way for me to film both the screen and the players hands at the same time but I am aware it’s not the right way to do it specially if you are watching it on the phone.
Part 1: Kakerugo 2016, if you have to chose one tournament go to this one
These days there are two major tournaments per year in Japan. X-Mania (3vs3 team tournament in August) and Kakerugo (5vs5 team tournament in May). Kakerugo was known in the past as Gian Recital. Exclusive news: X-Mania will change its name and location this year too.
Tournament brochure handed to all participants
Stunfest 2016 ST Tournament This Weekend
Stunfest is probably the biggest major in Europe and part of the Capcom Pro Tour. Stunfest is also the biggest european ST tournament since X-Mania Europe hasn’t happened for the last couple of years.
So far there are 74 players registered including Japanese Nuki Chunli. Solo tournament on Saturday and team tournament (3vs3) on Sunday. Here here full list of details:
Super Turbo NorCal vs SoCal gathering at Arkadeum
Ultracombo, Fudd, DarknessInTheFog, Moocus, Razgriz, Sergjiev, eltrouble and Millertime among other players gathered for a very fun meet up between NorCal and SoCal. Here the timestamps (they only work when…
Special Kotaka Shoten Kumite – 3.6.16
For those Guile fans here is a present with the current #2 Guile in Japan as the main star. Here are the opponents: Iroha (O.Guile), PECO* (ChunLi), Naoki (Boxer), Toukon (ChunLi), Kusa (ChunLi), Miharu (Dictator), Piroshi (Honda), Pixiv…
Neyagawa ABC – 2.14.16
Monthly ranking battle of February in Osaka
2on2 team format
Teams:
Kuraba (Ken) & Wani!K (Honda)
Hayashida Aisuke (Sagat) & Degeshu (Ryu)
Edo (Chun) & KKY (Dhalsim)
Utamaru (Hawk) & Shogatsu (O.Honda)
Teppe (Guile) & Murasaki (Dictator)
SIN (Honda/Boxer) & Aniken (Ken)
Main (Zangief) & Fujimon (DJ)
Otochun (Chun) & Kusumondo (Honda)
Batayan (Guile) & Gunze (Zangief)
colors (DJ) & Kazu (DJ)
malure (Chun) & Matsuken (Ken)